PAS Excavations

Panhandle Archaeological Society members do test excavations at Isaac's Windmill, Texas

Here are some pictures from a field project PAS members participated in at a site called Isaac's Windmill. This site is a Middle Ceramic period site located in Gray County, Texas. there is a county road that runs through the middle of the site exposing a number of features in the road cuts. We mainly did profiles of features, but did excavate one trash filled pit feature that was exposed in the floor of the road and partially in the north road cut.

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Looking east at road cut
with exposed features.
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PAS members cleaning profile.
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PAS Member Alvin Lynn
carefully trowelling profile.
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PAS members Jeff Indeck and Larry Vanover screening feature fill.
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Cleaned profile showing house basin on left and intrusive pit on right.
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Washita projectile point recovered from feature fill.
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PAS members Susanna Katz,
Kelley Baker, and Richard Mackie working on feature.
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PAS members Richard Mackie and Alvin Lynn photographing feature profiles
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PAS Member Rolla Shaller filling out paperwork.
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General view of excavations
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PAS members screening feature fill_
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Level recovery bag filled with bison bone from trash-filled pit feature
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PAS member Rolla Shaller filling out more paperwork.
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Feature #1 at completion of excavation
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PAS group photograph at the Isaac’s Windmill site

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